Joan Jara

Joan Jara
Joan Jara is a British-Chilean dancer and activist, and wife of the Chilean poet-songwriter and theatre director Víctor Jara. Joan Jara is the founder of the Víctor Jara Foundation.
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“As long as we sing his songs, as long as his courage can inspire us to greater courage, Víctor Jara will never die.” – Pete Seeger
“An intensely moving account. A love story — a...

Sanjay Ruparelia
Sanjay Ruparelia is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, New York. His publications include Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India (2015) and Unders

Alladi Uma and M Sridhar
Alladi Uma and M Sridhar teach English at the University of Hyderabad and have been doing collaborative work in translation. Their translations as well as articles on the subject have appeared in m

Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Muhammad Taqi, known as Mir Taqi Mir, was an Urdu poet of the 18th-century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of

Shahrnush Parsipur
Shahrnush Parsipur, born in Iran in 1946, began her career as a fiction writer and producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. Shortly after the publication of Women Without Men in 1989, Par

Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs is the author of many books, including Victorian Cities, A Social History of England, and a five-volume series on the history of the BBC.

Mark Juergensmeyer
Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Selvy Thiruchandran
Selvy Thiruchandran is Executive Director of the Women's Education and Research Centre (WERC), Colombo. She is the author of The Spectrum of Femininity, Feminine Speech Transmission; Subjectivities